Dev D -- by Anuraag Kashyap

I had been resisting watching this movie simply because I didnt want to do anything with the character Devdas, especially after watching bits and pieces of Bhansali's version. Even when everybody told me this was an antithesis to Bhansali.

On Saturday I decided to get over my revulsion.

I enjoyed Dev D, and how?!

I loved the way the otherwise loveable drunkard was shown his true place -- particularly by the women.

"Main Tumhe Tumhari Aukaad Dikha Rahi Hoon," says Paro, played by the hot hot hot Mahi Gill. And it sums up the movie.

As the storyline is well known to any Indian who cares a wee bit about movies, Kashyap plays truant and turns the perspective upside down. He shows what a loser the Devdas character is actually.Psychedelic colours, contemporary subplots -- like the MMS scandal of DPS R K Puram--Delhi, the BMW hit & run -- are all weaved into a narrative that eviscerates the hideous nature of Devdas.

Absolutely no sympathy for the scum.By the end of it, one was left wondering if Kashyap was showing his middle finger to the character Devdas or to those movie directors who have eulogized him for decades till now.

Abhay Deol sinks deep into Devdas’s skin and comes out trumps. The guy is a class act.